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/dɪˈsɛnsəˌtaɪzɪŋ/
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ADJECTIVE
- making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli
How To Use desensitizing In A Sentence
- Since then, state-sponsored atrocities have been so huge and commonplace, and so desensitizing, that readers may have to pause to grasp Pipes's point: "The massacre, by secret order of the government, of a family that for all its Imperial background was remarkably commonplace, guilty of nothing, desiring only to be allowed to live in peace, carried mankind for the first time across the threshold of delib - erate genocide. Man Of The Century, Alas
- AN as an explosive component has one major drawback, it is very hygroscopic, meaning that it will attract and absorb moisture from the air desensitising or destroying the explosive. The Makeshift Arsenal, by Lowry Version 1.2
- Who couldn't love watching Sarah Jessica Parker writing her funny little "you know, going on a date with a man is a lot like insert entire contents of episode" column, or Kim Cattrall desensitising everyone to the sight of her naked boobs so much that they may as well be made out of MDF, or either of the other two doing nothing at all ever. Jennifer Hudson Turns Slaggy For Sex And The City Movie
- Mr Twentyman said violent entertainment was desensitising children and adding a frightening new level of danger to schoolyard fights. The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
- AN as an explosive component has one major drawback, it is very hygroscopic, meaning that it will attract and absorb moisture from the air desensitising or destroying the explosive. The Makeshift Arsenal, by Lowry Version 1.2
- If New Labour has been characteristic of anything it is desensitising us to issues such as welfare. Vulcans on the starboard bow
- In trying to sensitize people to crimes aimed specifically at minorities, they are inadvertently desensitizing them to the vastly greater threat of crime against everyone.
- It is a scene of abject desolation that illustrated how glib the assumption was that the occupational hazards of swings in fortune ends up desensitising players. Football's inside-story tellers change perceptions and expose the soul | Rob Bagchi
- Jaar questions the desensitising role of the media and the global politics of representation. The Guardian World News
- Confused by this, I rub along the sides of my mouth, desensitizing my over-active nerves.